Cherenkov mesons as in-medium quark energy loss

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2010)091zbMATH Open1294.81096arXiv1009.5937OpenAlexW3098283158WikidataQ59252405 ScholiaQ59252405MaRDI QIDQ406801FDOQ406801

Authors: Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Daniel Fernández, David Mateos 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We recently showed that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons [1]. Here we review our previous holographic calculation of the energy loss in N=4 Super Yang-Mills and extend it to longitudinal vector mesons and scalar mesons. We also discuss phenomenological implications for heavy-ion collision experiments. Although the Cherenkov energy loss is an O(1/Nc) effect, a ballpark estimate yields a value of dE/dx for Nc=3 which is comparable to that of other mechanisms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5937

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondence\(1/N\) expansionholography and quark-gluon plasmas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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